The Salon d’Automne in Paris may have been launched in 1903 as a liberal alternative to the staid Paris Salon, but even it was unprepared for what Henri Matisse unveiled in 1905. That year, the ...

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), born in Paris, was one of the painters who exhibited at the 1905 Salon d’Automne, considered the beginning of the Fauvism art movement. The name “Fauvism” came from a ...

You might not think so when you read headlines about a Van Gogh failing to sell at auction, but Impressionist and modern art are booming alongside contemporary art. So much so that good Impressionism ...

Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path.

It’s impossible for contemporary audiences to experience those startlingly original modernist works that altered the course of art history the way viewers did when they were first exhibited. We can’t ...

The Folkwang Museum is hosting a show of work that juxtaposes French Fauvism with similar movements across Europe. Politically, the Continent might have been deeply divided in the early 20th century, ...

She almost always wore black, but in Woman with a Hat (1905) so many colours swirl around the canvas that Amélie Matisse's dress is an indeterminate shade. She was a brunette, but her hair is a streak ...